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kaha

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Re: ORBX Freeware airport pack
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2020, 08:28:18 AM »
Hi Karl,

As you may know, the Orbx Freeware pack included hundreds of airport upgrades, located outside of the Orbx regions, that were mostly done by the late Neil Hill.   Then P3Dv5 came out with changed ICAOs, elevation changes etc.   Many of the Orbx Freeware airports didn't quite fit in with the upgraded P3Dv5.

With Neil gone, Orbx did not release the Orbx Freeware pack for P3Dv5 since they had no one to assign to the free labor of love.  But the users started copying the freeware pack from v4 to v5 after finding out that many of the airports looked OK. 

Orbx's solution was to invite users, who had the skills and were willing to provide free labor, to repair the airports that needed it and post them in the area you have linked. 

It seems to be working.

Rod

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Re: ORBX Freeware airport pack
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2020, 09:06:20 AM »
Yes Rod, I think that's a good idea!

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Re: ORBX Freeware airport pack
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2020, 10:11:52 AM »
I was really glad to see 20 Alaskan airports were there.  Good news.

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Re: ORBX Freeware airport pack
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2020, 10:37:47 AM »
I was really glad to see 20 Alaskan airports were there.  Good news.

You are welcome. I did them for my own use and I am pleased Orbx gave us a means to share.

Greg

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Re: ORBX Freeware airport pack
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2020, 12:26:09 PM »
Greg, thank you! I saw you also did Zell am See.

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Re: ORBX Freeware airport pack
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2020, 06:47:17 PM »
Global Airports is out now in ORBX.  I just added it.  It seems to add all the airports the Alaska fix had in it, except PAPK.

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Re: ORBX Freeware airport pack
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2020, 12:52:35 AM »
My first assessment of airports covered was wrong.  ORBX release doesn't include: 9Z3, PAGX, PAKD, PANA, PAPB, and PAPK.  Sorry about that.  I should have really looked much more carefully.  I just kept those along with the ORBX release and deleted the duplicates.